This article aims to provide insights into the comparison between Microsoft Azure services and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Whether you’re strategizing a multicloud approach with Azure and AWS or contemplating a migration to Azure, this article allows you to assess the IT capabilities across various categories.
Please note that the comparison focuses on services that have close equivalences; it doesn’t cover every single AWS or Azure service, and feature parity may vary among matched services.
Azure and AWS for multicloud solutions
As the leading public cloud platforms, Azure and AWS present extensive and comprehensive capabilities on a global scale. Despite this, numerous organizations opt for a combined utilization of both platforms to enhance choice and flexibility. Embracing a multicloud approach enables them to mitigate risks and dependencies effectively. Consulting firms and software vendors may also leverage both Azure and AWS, recognizing that these platforms collectively cater to a significant portion of cloud market demand.
Marketplace
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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AWS Marketplace | Azure Marketplace | Easy-to-deploy and automatically configured third-party applications, including single virtual machine or multiple virtual machine solutions. |
AI and machine learning
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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SageMaker | Machine Learning | A cloud service to train, deploy, automate, and manage machine learning models. |
Alexa Skills Kit | Bot Framework | Build and connect intelligent bots that interact with your users using text/SMS, Skype, Teams, Slack, Microsoft 365 mail, Twitter, and other popular services. |
Lex | Speech Services | API capable of converting speech to text, understanding intent, and converting text back to speech for natural responsiveness. |
Lex | Language Understanding (LUIS) | Allows your applications to understand user commands contextually. |
Polly, Transcribe | Speech Services | Enables both Speech to Text, and Text into Speech capabilities. |
Rekognition | Cognitive Services | Computer Vision: Extract information from images to categorize and process visual data. Face: Detect, identify, and analyze faces and facial expressions in photos. |
Skills Kit | Virtual Assistant | The Virtual Assistant Template brings together a number of best practices we’ve identified through the building of conversational experiences and automates integration of components that we’ve found to be highly beneficial to Bot Framework developers. |
Big data and analytics
Data warehouse
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Redshift | Synapse Analytics | Cloud-based enterprise data warehouse (EDW) that uses massively parallel processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data. |
Lake Formation | Data Share | A simple and safe service for sharing big data. |
Time series
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Amazon Timestream | Azure Data Explorer Azure Time Series Insights | Fully managed, low latency, and distributed big data analytics platform that runs complex queries across petabytes of data. Highly optimized for log and time series data. Open and scalable end-to-end IoT analytics service. Collect, process, store, query, and visualize data at Internet of Things (IoT) scale–data that’s highly contextualized and optimized for time series. |
Big data processing
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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EMR | Azure Data Explorer | Fully managed, low latency, distributed big data analytics platform to run complex queries across petabytes of data. |
EMR | Databricks | Apache Spark-based analytics platform. |
EMR | HDInsight | Managed Hadoop service. Deploy and manage Hadoop clusters in Azure. |
EMR | Data Lake Storage | Massively scalable, secure data lake functionality built on Azure Blob Storage. |
Data orchestration / ETL
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Data Pipeline, Glue | Data Factory | Processes and moves data between different compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources at specified intervals. Create, schedule, orchestrate, and manage data pipelines. |
Glue | Azure Purview | A unified data governance service that helps you manage and govern your on-premises, multicloud, and software as a service (SaaS) data. |
Analytics and visualization
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Kinesis Analytics | Stream Analytics Azure Data Explorer Data Lake Analytics Data Lake Store | Storage and analysis platforms that create insights from large quantities of data, or data that originates from many sources. |
QuickSight | Power BI | Business intelligence tools that build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and develop business insights from data. |
CloudSearch | Cognitive Search | Delivers full-text search and related search analytics and capabilities. |
Athena | Data Lake Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics | Provides a serverless interactive query service that uses standard SQL for analyzing databases. Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless or dedicated resources at scale. |
Elasticsearch Service | Elastic on Azure | Use the Elastic Stack (Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana) to search, analyze, and visualize in real time. |
Compute
Virtual machines and servers
Virtual machines (VMs) and servers allow users to deploy, manage, and maintain OS and other software. Users pay for what they use, with the flexibility to change sizes.
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Amazon EC2 Instance Types | Azure Virtual Machines | AWS and Azure on-demand VMs bill per seconds used. Although AWS instance types and Azure VM sizes have similar categories, the exact RAM, CPU, and storage capabilities differ. For information about Azure VM sizes. |
VMware Cloud on AWS | Azure VMware Solution | AWS and Azure solutions let you move VMware vSphere-based workloads and environments to the cloud. Azure VMware Solution is a VMware-verified Microsoft service that runs on Azure infrastructure. You can manage existing environments with VMware solution tools, while modernizing applications with cloud native services. |
AWS Parallel Cluster | Azure CycleCloud | Create, manage, operate, and optimize HPC and large compute clusters of any scale. |
Autoscaling
Autoscaling lets you automatically change the number of VM instances. You set defined metrics and thresholds that determine when to add or remove instances.
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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AWS Auto Scaling | Virtual machine scale sets, App Service autoscale | In Azure, virtual machine scale sets let you deploy and manage identical sets of VMs. The number of sets can autoscale. App Service autoscale lets you autoscale Azure App Service applications. |
Batch processing
Batch processing runs large-scale parallel and high-performance computing applications efficiently in the cloud.
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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AWS Batch | Azure Batch | Azure Batch helps you manage compute-intensive work across a scalable collection of VMs. |
Storage
Several services provide different types of data storage for VM disks.
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Disk volumes on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) | Data disks in Azure Blob Storage. | Data disks in blob storage provide durable data storage for Azure VMs. This storage is similar to AWS EC2 instance disk volumes on EBS. |
Amazon EC2 instance store | Azure temporary storage | Azure temporary storage provides VMs with similar low-latency temporary read-write storage to EC2 instance storage, also called ephemeral storage. |
Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS Volume | Azure premium storage | Azure supports higher performance disk I/O with premium storage. This storage is similar to AWS Provisioned IOPS storage options. |
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) | Azure Files | Azure Files provides VMs with similar functionality to Amazon EFS. |
Containers and container orchestrators
Several AWS and Azure services provide containerized application deployment and orchestration.
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Fargate | Azure Container Apps | Azure Container Apps is a scalable service that lets you deploy thousands of containers without requiring access to the control plane. |
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) | Azure Container Registry | Container registries store Docker formatted images and create all types of container deployments in the cloud. |
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) | Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | EKS and AKS let you orchestrate Docker containerized application deployments with Kubernetes. AKS simplifies monitoring and cluster management through auto upgrades and a built-in operations console. |
AWS App Mesh | Open Service Mesh on AKS | The Open Service Mesh add-on integrates with features provided by Azure as well as open source projects. |
Serverless computing
Serverless computing lets you integrate systems and run backend processes without provisioning or managing servers.
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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AWS Lambda | Azure Functions, WebJobs in Azure App Service | Azure Functions is the primary equivalent of AWS Lambda in providing serverless, on-demand code. AWS Lambda functionality also overlaps with Azure WebJobs, which let you schedule or continuously run background tasks. |
Database
Type | AWS Service | Azure Service | Description |
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Relational database | RDS | SQL Database Database for MySQL Database for PostgreSQL Database for MariaDB | Managed relational database services in which resiliency, scale and maintenance are primarily handled by the Azure platform. |
Serverless relational database | Amazon Aurora Serverless | Azure SQL Database serverless Serverless SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics | Database offerings that automatically scales compute based on the workload demand. You’re billed per second for the actual compute used (Azure SQL)/data that’s processed by your queries (Azure Synapse Analytics Serverless). |
NoSQL | DynamoDB (Key-Value) SimpleDB Amazon DocumentDB (Document) Amazon Neptune (Graph) | Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database that natively supports multiple data models including key-value pairs, documents, graphs, and columnar. |
Caching | ElastiCache Amazon MemoryDB for Redis | Cache for Redis | An in-memory–based, distributed caching service that provides a high-performance store that’s typically used to offload nontransactional work from a database. |
Database migration | Database Migration Service | Database Migration Service | A service that executes the migration of database schema and data from one database format to a specific database technology in the cloud. |
DevOps and application monitoring
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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CloudWatch, X-Ray | Monitor | Comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. |
CodeDeploy CodeCommit CodePipeline | DevOps | A cloud service for collaborating on code development. |
Developer Tools | Developer Tools | Collection of tools for building, debugging, deploying, diagnosing, and managing multiplatform scalable apps and services. |
CodeBuild | DevOps Pipeline Github Actions | Fully managed build service that supports continuous integration and deployment. |
Command Line Interface | CLI PowerShell | Built on top of the native REST API across all cloud services, various programming language-specific wrappers provide easier ways to create solutions. |
eksctl | az aks | Manage Azure Kubernetes Service using these Azure CLI commands. |
AWS CloudShell | Azure Cloud Shell | Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It gives you the flexibility to choose the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell. |
OpsWorks (Chef-based) | Automation | Configures and operates applications of all shapes and sizes, and provides templates to create and manage a collection of resources. |
CloudFormation | Resource Manager Bicep VM extensions Azure Automation | Provides a way for users to automate the manual, long-running, error-prone, and frequently repeated IT tasks. |
Internet of things (IoT)
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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IoT Core | IoT Hub | A cloud gateway for managing bidirectional communication with billions of IoT devices, securely and at scale. |
Greengrass | IoT Edge | Deploy cloud intelligence directly onto IoT devices, catering to on-premises scenarios. |
Kinesis Firehose, Kinesis Streams | Event Hubs | Services that facilitate the mass ingestion of events (messages), typically from devices and sensors. The data can then be processed in real-time micro-batches or be written to storage for further analysis. |
IoT Things Graph | Digital Twins | Services you can use to create digital representations of real-world things, places, business processes, and people. Use these services to gain insights, drive the creation of better products and new customer experiences, and optimize operations and costs. |
Management and governance
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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AWS Organizations | Management Groups | Azure management groups help you organize your resources and subscriptions. |
AWS Well-Architected Tool | Azure Well-Architected Review | Examine your workload through the lenses of reliability, cost management, operational excellence, security, and performance efficiency. |
Trusted Advisor | Advisor | Provides analysis of cloud resource configuration and security, so that subscribers can ensure they’re making use of best practices and optimum configurations. |
AWS Billing and Cost Management | Azure Cost Management and Billing | Azure Cost Management and Billing helps you understand your Azure invoice (bill), manage your billing account and subscriptions, monitor and control Azure spending, and optimize resource use. |
Cost and Usage Reports | Usage Details API | Services to help generate, monitor, forecast, and share billing data for resource usage by time, organization, or product resources. |
Management Console | Portal | A unified management console that simplifies building, deploying, and operating your cloud resources. |
Application Discovery Service | Migrate | Assesses on-premises workloads for migration to Azure, performs performance-based sizing, and provides cost estimations. |
Systems Manager | Monitor | Comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. |
Personal Health Dashboard | Resource Health | Provides detailed information about the health of resources, as well as recommended actions for maintaining resource health. |
CloudTrail | Activity log | The Activity log is a platform log in Azure that provides insight into subscription-level events, such as when a resource is modified or when a virtual machine is started. |
CloudWatch | Application Insights | A feature of Azure Monitor, Application Insights is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for developers and DevOps professionals, which provides telemetry insights and information, in order to better understand how applications are performing and to identify areas for optimization. |
Config | Application Change Analysis | Application Change Analysis detects various types of changes, from the infrastructure layer all the way to application deployment. |
Cost Explorer | Cost Management | Optimize costs while maximizing cloud potential. |
Control Tower | Azure Lighthouse | Set up and govern a multi account/subscription environment. |
Resource Groups and Tag Editor | Resource Groups and Tags | A Resource Group is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution. Apply tags to your Azure resources to logically organize them by categories. |
AWS AppConfig | Azure App Configuration | Azure App Configuration is a managed service that helps developers centralize their application and feature settings simply and securely. |
Service Catalog | Azure Managed Applications | Offers cloud solutions that are easy for consumers to deploy and operate. |
SDKs and tools | SDKs and tools | Manage and interact with Azure services the way you prefer, programmatically from your language of choice, by using the Azure SDKs, our collection of tools, or both. |
Messaging and eventing
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Simple Queue Service (SQS) | Queue Storage | Provides a managed message queueing service for communicating between decoupled application components. |
Simple Notification Service (SNS) | Service Bus | Supports a set of cloud-based, message-oriented middleware technologies, including reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging. |
Amazon EventBridge | Event Grid | A fully managed event routing service that allows for uniform event consumption using a publish/subscribe model. |
Amazon Kinesis | Event Hubs | A fully managed, real-time data ingestion service. Stream millions of events per second, from any source, to build dynamic data pipelines and to immediately respond to business challenges. |
Amazon MQ | Service Bus | Service Bus Premium is fully compliant with the Java/Jakarta EE Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 API. Service Bus Standard supports the JMS 1.1 subset focused on queues. |
Mobile services
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Mobile Hub | App Center Xamarin Apps | Provides backend mobile services for rapid development of mobile solutions, identity management, data synchronization, and storage and notifications across devices. |
Mobile SDK | App Center | Provides the technology to rapidly build cross-platform and native apps for mobile devices. |
Device Farm | App Center | Provides services to support testing mobile applications. |
Mobile Analytics | App Center | Supports monitoring, and feedback collection for the debugging and analysis of a mobile application service quality. |
Networking
Area | AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Cloud virtual networking | Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | Virtual Network | Provides an isolated, private environment in the cloud. Users have control over their virtual networking environment, including selection of their own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways. |
NAT gateways | NAT Gateways | Virtual Network NAT | A service that simplifies outbound-only Internet connectivity for virtual networks. When configured on a subnet, all outbound connectivity uses your specified static public IP addresses. Outbound connectivity is possible without a load balancer or public IP addresses directly attached to virtual machines. |
Cross-premises connectivity | VPN Gateway | VPN Gateway | Connects Azure virtual networks to other Azure virtual networks, or customer on-premises networks (Site To Site). Allows end users to connect to Azure services through VPN tunneling (Point To Site). |
DNS management | Route 53 | DNS | Manage your DNS records using the same credentials and billing and support contract as your other Azure services |
DNS-based routing | Route 53 | Traffic Manager | A service that hosts domain names, plus routes users to Internet applications, connects user requests to datacenters, manages traffic to apps, and improves app availability with automatic failover. |
Dedicated network | Direct Connect | ExpressRoute | Establishes a dedicated, private network connection from a location to the cloud provider (not over the Internet). |
Load balancing | Network Load Balancer | Load Balancer | Azure Load Balancer load balances traffic at layer 4 (TCP or UDP). Standard Load Balancer also supports cross-region or global load balancing. |
Application-level load balancing | Application Load Balancer | Application Gateway | Application Gateway is a layer 7 load balancer. It supports SSL termination, cookie-based session affinity, and round robin for load-balancing traffic. |
Route table | Custom Route Tables | User Defined Routes | Custom, or user-defined (static) routes to override default system routes, or to add more routes to a subnet’s route table. |
Private link | PrivateLink | Azure Private Link | Azure Private Link provides private access to services that are hosted on the Azure platform. This keeps your data on the Microsoft network. |
Private PaaS connectivity | VPC endpoints | Private Endpoint | Private Endpoint provides secured, private connectivity to various Azure platform as a service (PaaS) resources, over a backbone Microsoft private network. |
Virtual network peering | VPC Peering | VNET Peering | VNet peering is a mechanism that connects two virtual networks (VNets) in the same region through the Azure backbone network. Once peered, the two virtual networks appear as one for all connectivity purposes. |
Content delivery networks | CloudFront | Front Door | Azure Front Door is a modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers high performance, scalability, and secure user experiences for your content and applications. |
Network Monitoring | VPC Flow Logs | Azure Network Watcher | Azure Network Watcher allows you to monitor, diagnose, and analyze the traffic in Azure Virtual Network. |
Security, identity, and access
Authentication and authorization
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Microsoft Entra ID | Allows users to securely control access to services and resources while offering data security and protection. Create and manage users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny access to resources. |
Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Azure role-based access control | Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) helps you manage who has access to Azure resources, what they can do with those resources, and what areas they have access to. |
Organizations | Subscription Management + Azure RBAC | Security policy and role management for working with multiple accounts. |
Multi-Factor Authentication | Microsoft Entra ID | Safeguard access to data and applications, while meeting user demand for a simple sign-in process. |
Directory Service | Microsoft Entra Domain Services | Provides managed domain services, such as domain join, group policy, LDAP, and Kerberos/NTLM authentication, which are fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory. |
Cognito | Microsoft Entra External ID | A highly available, global, identity management service for consumer-facing applications that scales to hundreds of millions of identities. |
AWS Config | Policy | Azure Policy is a service in Azure that you use to create, assign, and manage policies. These policies enforce different rules and effects over your resources, so those resources stay compliant with your corporate standards and service level agreements. |
Organizations | Management Groups | Azure management groups provide a level of scope above subscriptions. You organize subscriptions into containers called “management groups” and apply your governance conditions to the management groups. All subscriptions within a management group automatically inherit the conditions applied to the management group. Management groups give you enterprise-grade management at a large scale, no matter what type of subscriptions you have. |
Encryption
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Server-side encryption with Amazon S3 Key Management Service | Azure Storage Service Encryption | Helps you protect and safeguard your data and meet your organizational security and compliance commitments. |
Key Management Service (KMS), CloudHSM | Key Vault | Provides security solution and works with other services by providing a way to manage, create, and control encryption keys stored in hardware security modules (HSM). |
Firewall
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Web Application Firewall | Web Application Firewall | A firewall that protects web applications from common web exploits. |
AWS Network Firewall | Firewall | Provides inbound protection for non-HTTP/S protocols, outbound network-level protection for all ports and protocols, and application-level protection for outbound HTTP/S. |
Security
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Inspector | Defender for Cloud | An automated security assessment service that improves the security and compliance of applications. Automatically assess applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices. |
Certificate Manager | App Service Certificates available on the Portal | Service that allows customers to create, manage, and consume certificates seamlessly in the cloud. |
GuardDuty | Microsoft Sentinel | Detect and investigate advanced attacks on-premises and in the cloud. |
Artifact | Service Trust Portal | Provides access to audit reports, compliance guides, and trust documents from across cloud services. |
Shield | DDos Protection Service | Provides cloud services with protection from distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks. |
Storage
Object storage
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Simple Storage Services (S3) | Blob storage | Object storage service, for use cases including cloud applications, content distribution, backup, archiving, disaster recovery, and big data analytics. |
Virtual server disks
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Elastic Block Store (EBS) | managed disks | SSD storage optimized for I/O intensive read/write operations. For use as high-performance Azure virtual machine storage. |
Shared files
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Elastic File System | Files | Provides a simple interface to create and configure file systems quickly, and share common files. Can be used with traditional protocols that access files over a network. |
Archiving and backup
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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S3 Infrequent Access (IA) | Storage cool tier | Cool storage is a lower-cost tier for storing data that is infrequently accessed and long-lived. |
S3 Glacier, Deep Archive | Storage archive access tier | Archive storage has the lowest storage cost and higher data retrieval costs compared to hot and cool storage. |
Backup | Backup | Back up and recover files and folders from the cloud, and provide offsite protection against data loss. |
Hybrid storage
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Storage Gateway | StorSimple | Integrates on-premises IT environments with cloud storage. Automates data management and storage, plus supports disaster recovery. |
DataSync | File Sync | Azure Files can be deployed in two main ways: by directly mounting the serverless Azure file shares or by caching Azure file shares on-premises using Azure File Sync. |
Bulk data transfer
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Import/Export Disk | Import/Export | A data transport solution that uses secure disks and appliances to transfer large amounts of data. Also offers data protection during transit. |
Import/Export Snowball, Snowball Edge, Snowmobile | Data Box | Petabyte- to exabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure data storage devices to transfer large amounts of data to and from Azure. |
Web applications
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Elastic Beanstalk | App Service | Managed hosting platform providing easy to use services for deploying and scaling web applications and services. |
API Gateway | API Management | A turnkey solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers. |
CloudFront | Front Door | Azure Front Door is a modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers high performance, scalability, and secure user experiences for your content and applications. |
Global Accelerator | Front Door | Easily join your distributed microservices architectures into a single global application using HTTP load balancing and path-based routing rules. Automate turning up new regions and scale-out with API-driven global actions, and independent fault-tolerance to your back end microservices in Azure-or anywhere. |
Global Accelerator | Cross-regional load balancer | Distribute and load balance traffic across multiple Azure regions via a single, static, global anycast public IP address. |
LightSail | App Service | Build, deploy, and scale web apps on a fully managed platform. |
App Runner | Web App for Containers | Easily deploy and run containerized web apps on Windows and Linux. |
Amplify | Static Web Apps | Boost productivity with a tailored developer experience, CI/CD workflows to build and deploy your static content hosting, and dynamic scale for integrated serverless APIs. |
End-user computing
AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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WorkSpaces, AppStream 2.0 | Azure Virtual Desktop | Manage virtual desktops and applications to enable corporate network and data access to users, anytime, anywhere, from supported devices. Amazon WorkSpaces support Windows and Linux virtual desktops. Azure Virtual Desktop supports multi-session Windows 10 virtual desktops. |
WorkLink | Application Proxy | Provides access to intranet applications, without requiring VPN connectivity. Amazon WorkLink is limited to iOS and Android devices. |
Miscellaneous
Area | AWS service | Azure service | Description |
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Backend process logic | Step Functions | Logic Apps | Cloud technology to build distributed applications using out-of-the-box connectors to reduce integration challenges. Connect apps, data, and devices on-premises or in the cloud. |
Enterprise application services | WorkMail, WorkDocs, Chime | Microsoft 365 | Fully integrated cloud service that provides communications, email, and document management in the cloud and is available on a wide variety of devices. |
Gaming | GameLift | PlayFab | Managed services for hosting dedicated game servers. |
Media transcoding | Elastic Transcoder | Media Services | Services that offer broadcast-quality video streaming services, including various transcoding technologies. |
Workflow | Step Functions | Logic Apps | Serverless technology for connecting apps, data and devices anywhere, whether on-premises or in the cloud for large ecosystems of SaaS and cloud-based connectors. |
Hybrid | Outposts | Stack | Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud platform that enables you to run Azure services in your company’s or service provider’s datacenter. As a developer, you can build apps on Azure Stack. You can then deploy them to either Azure Stack or Azure, or you can build truly hybrid apps that take advantage of connectivity between an Azure Stack cloud and Azure. |
Media | Elemental MediaConvert | Media Services | Cloud-based media workflow platform to index, package, protect, and stream video at scale. |
Satellite | Ground Station | Azure Orbital | Fully managed cloud-based ground station as a service. |
Quantum computing | Amazon Braket | Azure Quantum | Managed quantum computing service that developers, researchers, and businesses can use to run quantum computing programs. |